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Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein

Forget, Fate, Concern

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

Best, Knowledge, Investment

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham Lincoln

Politics, Done, Pretty

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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris

Life, Happiness, True

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen Keller

Nothing, Hard, Everything

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Mae West

Worry, Number, Diamond

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau

Live, Regret, Regrets

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Blessed, Mean

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Confucius

Success, Makes, Overcome

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David Thoreau

Single, Worth, Complete

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller

Life, Music, Beautiful

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot

Important, Mean, Done

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw

Power, Self, Belief

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw

Fitness, Children, Important

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
George Washington

Worry, Trouble, Paid

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Children, Lose

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith

Expect, Dinner, Butcher

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
Steve Jobs

Humor, Good, Friend

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
Barack Obama

Best, Job, Tough

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller

Life, Music, Beautiful

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.
Ron Paul

Money, System, Sound

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Men, Fear, Self

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Before, Perfect, Sometimes

A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.
Susannah York

Happy, Nothing, Person

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine

Government, Society, Place

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
Katharine Hepburn

Mother, Job, Made

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand Russell

Happiness, Friendly, Rather

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Love, Gun, Films

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken

Marriage, Trust, End

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
Lucille Ball

Women, Afraid, Hurts

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